I almost hesitate to tell the story because it starts with my cat having fleas (gross). But anyway, it happens to the best. She is an indoor cat but she got out a few weeks ago by accident and spent the night in the back yard. As an indoor cat, she was not wearing a flea collar (THAT'S changed already let me tell you! Indoor, outdoor, upside down, the little rodent is wearing one from now on). Anyway, I had a bottle of Hartz flea and tick shampoo. I didnt remember where I got it at first, I thought I gave away all my flea supplies last year when the cat had been an indoor cat for a whole year, but here it was, a bottle of flea shampoo. Must have missed it. So I shampooed the cat. The stuff smelled really bad, but hey, flea shampoo does. I had taken 5 loads of laundry to the laundromat and sprayed the house with zodiac stuff and it smelled pretty bad. I rinsed her well, fortunately as it turns out. Then later on I felt a flea on MY face ! So go figure, guess what I did? I freaked a bit, hopped in the shower at top speed and poured the flea shampoo on my own hair. Thats when I realized, no way is this shampoo, up close it smells like...... turpentine or something. So I washed my hair twice more with my regular shampoo and got out, trying to think WHERE on earth this bottle came from. Then it hit me. I got it out of a butter churn that used to be at my mothers house-I didnt think anything of it because in the churn there were rags and an old dog collar and leash, so I figured it must be my mother's pet supply storage spot. I called her. Nope. Mop N Glo! She put it in an empty flea shampoo bottle years ago as the bottle was a squeeze bottle and she found it easier to squirt and mop.
Boy I'm glad my mom never used Nair.
PS. Neko is fine, (and really really clean and shiny)-I shampooed her yet again last night, poor thing is absolutely traumatized. I had "moussed" her twice in the past week which did not get rid of the fleas, and the second time it made her sick, so I was afraid to do it again. And I know, I know, flea shampoo is NOT meant for humans, but I was very freaked out by a flea on my face and I have thick, thick curly hair, so I didn't care.
Boy I'm glad my mom never used Nair.
PS. Neko is fine, (and really really clean and shiny)-I shampooed her yet again last night, poor thing is absolutely traumatized. I had "moussed" her twice in the past week which did not get rid of the fleas, and the second time it made her sick, so I was afraid to do it again. And I know, I know, flea shampoo is NOT meant for humans, but I was very freaked out by a flea on my face and I have thick, thick curly hair, so I didn't care.